Improvement in cultivators



A. CAREY.

Wheel-Cultivator.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AENEE CAREY, 0E ROME, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 27,106, dated February14, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER CAREY, ofRome, Floyd county, Georgia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Elillers, 850.;and I hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawing, making partof this specification.

The invention relates to the class of implements having one or morepairsof plows or shares adapted for the service of billing up ground;and it consists in an arrangement by which the plows, while beingadapted to be adjusted in working depth, may also be capable ofreceiving adjustment laterally, so that the plows may be set to work atany distance apart within the compass of the frame.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective view of a cotton'hilleremlodyingmyimprovement.

A B 0 represent respectively the bed, running-gear, and tongue of acarriage.

Hinged to the bed A at a is a quadrangular frame,D D, whose free end dis adapted to be raised by means of the lever E, to the end 0 of whichit is jointed, said lever having its fulcrum on the bed A, as shown.Acatch, F, on the frame, entering a hole in the lever E, holds the frameto its elevated position. The end rails,D,of the frame D D are groovedon their inner edges to receive the tongued ends of beams Gr, secured tosaid rails by means of straps g, which permit the lateral adjustment ofthe beams. are perforated, as shown, to receive pins H, which secure thebeams Gr to any position.

H are shares whose sheths or shanks I have each a series ofperforations, 6, through which they are attached, each to its respectivebeam, by means of a pin, J. The plurality of perforations t' enable theshares to be set at any desired depth below the frame. Braces K,extending from the shares obliquely upward to the beams, serve to staythe shares and to hold them to their work. In the present illustrationthe shares consist of two pairs or gangs of rights and lefts, adapted toform a bed or a series of hills of anydesired breadth and depth. Adepression of the lever E so elevates the entire suit of plows as toenable theimplement to be moved freely about.

Plows all right or all left hand may be employed for some purposes.

1 claim as new and of my invention herein and desire to secure byLetters Patent The described arrangementof the plows H, beams G, andperforated rails D,the whole being constructed and combined in themanner and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

ABNER CAREY.

Vitnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, O. STEEMER, Jr.

The straps g and the rails D

